All is not as it seems for United Nations Marine Sergeant Laney Boudin, the operator of a state of the art armored exo-skeleton. She and a small detachment of Marines guard the Persephone, a ship designed to explore the Earth, a now completely unknown planet that humanity destroyed through environmental degradation hundreds of years ago. Boudin knows the dangers of her job but underestimates the determination of the powerful forces at play in the far flung collection of space bound satellite cities, settlements and habitats called the SkyWeb. There are secret powers who will stop at nothing to sabotage the mission and prevent the recolonization of humanity's mysterious silver veiled home world.